Badaun (UP), March 14: A three-member BJP team led by MP Maneka Gandhi was today prevented from going to communal violence-hit Bareilly city by Uttar Pradesh authorities here.
Lashing out at the UP government, Maneka, who was stopped in Ghaziabad but later allowed to proceed to Badaun with police escort, 250 km from Bareilly, accused it of “engineering the riots” and taking “one sided action to appease a particular community”.
“Whatever had happened in Bareilly may lead to similar incidents at other places in the state,” she said.
Another member of the team, Gorakhpur MP Yogi Aditynath was forced to get to down from Gorakhpur-Bareilly Express train in Barabanki, near Lucknow, at 3 AM.
He was taken to a state guest house and later sent back. Meerut MP Rajendra Agarwal was stopped in Rampur district which shares its border with Bareilly.
—-PTI